Uncle Sam's shame
Subtitle: inside our broken Veterans Administration
By: Martin Kantor.
Publisher: Praeger Security International
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313346507
Subjects: United States. -- Veterans Health Administration -- Evaluation.; United States. -- Veterans Health Administration -- Management.; United States. -- Veterans Health Administration.; Veterans' hospitals -- United States.; Veterans -- Medical care -- United States.; Hospitals, Veterans -- United States.; Health Policy -- United States.; Hospital-Patient Relations -- United States.; Organizational Culture -- United States.; United States Government Agencies -- United States.; Veterans -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: An overview of the VA bureaucracy; value: Psychological reasons for staff mistreating veterans; value: Problematic medical care; value: Problematic nonmedical administration; value: Problematic medical administration; value: Problematic ancillary staff; value: Problematic veterans groups; value: Problematic oversight from Washington; value: Difficult patients; value: The potentially violent VA patient; value: Problems with the physical structure; value: Money and VA medicine; value: Toward better medical care for vets; value: Self-help: how vets can become better medical consumers; value: A look to the future/recommendations; value: On the positive side.